WDS, VLANs, and PXE Booting A Guest VM

[afhelton]

Hi All,

I've installed a Windows Server 2019 instance with the WDS role and am wanting to PXE boot some guest VMS. I have WDS already configured, but am unsure how to get things working properly as my WDS server and my guest PXE boot VMs are on different VLANs. Normally, I go into Device Manager and manually configure the VLAN on the network interface of a guest, but with network booting I can't do that obviously. How would I go about doing this? Is there a way in iPXE to configure a vlan on the inteface? There's no vcreate as per the iPXE documentation in the Proxmox version of iPXE that I can see. Also, the iPXE documentation indicates that I need to set the bridge spanning tree interface startup forwarding delay to zero, but I am unsure how to do this. I can't seem to get the guest pxe vm and my server vms to communicate. iPXE throws a 040ee1 error upon trying to network boot.

Thanks!

 

[afhelton]

I figured this out. Just needed to 1) Configure an ip helper-address for BOTH my DHCP server and WDS server on my Cisco 2811, 2) Disable the Proxmox Firewall on the PXE VM, and 3) Assign the correct VLAN to the network adapter in the hardware settings on the VM.